This template allows linking to external links found on most current U.S. Congress biographies and on many state-level political biographies. This will aid in the maintenance and standardization of these external links.

How to use

• This template is only appropriate for legislators who served any time during or after 1991.
• This template should not be .

Cut & paste

{{CongLinks | congbio = | votesmart = | fec = | congress = }}

The order of the fields does not matter for results, but is useful for consistency and to see what's missing.

Fields

• All parameters are optional, but if you don't include any of them, nothing will show up.
• Do not use capital letters. They might disrupt the code.

Field	Data	Result	URL source
congbio	ID number of the congressional biography	Congressional Biography and Washington Post voting record	/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index= [congbio]
votesmart	votesmart.org id	Biography, voting record, and interest group ratings	/candidate/ [votesmart]
fec	Federal Election Commission ID	Campaign finance reports and data	/cgi-bin/can_detail/ [fec]
congress	Path name	Legislation sponsored	member/ [congress]

Example

: Returning all external links:

• at the
• at
• at the
• at The Library of Congress

See also

• {{ }}
• {{ }}
• {{ }} puts articles in the category .
• , a subpage of Project Congress , tracks how well information is imported from the Bioguide.